Arcserve Shadowprotect Spx - Backup And Disaster Recovery
Published 5/2025
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz
Language: English | Size: 777.94 MB | Duration: 2h 31m
Published 5/2025
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz
Language: English | Size: 777.94 MB | Duration: 2h 31m
A Beginner’s Guide to Backup and Disaster Recovery with ShadowProtect SPX. Essential Backup and Disaster Recovery Skills
What you'll learn
Understand ShadowProtect SPX fundamentals.
Learn the architecture, key features, and core backup concepts that make ShadowProtect a reliable solution for disaster recovery.
Set up full and incremental backups to ensure data integrity while optimizing storage and backup windows.
Manage backup images with ImageManager
Automate backup consolidation, retention policies, and offsite replication to maintain a clean, organized backup environment.
Develop and implement recovery strategies to restore systems quickly after hardware failures, ransomware attacks, or other disasters.
Identify and resolve frequent backup and restore problems to keep your data protection workflows running smoothly.
Work through practical scenarios and exercises that simulate typical IT challenges, preparing you for on-the-job success.
Requirements
Basic understanding of computer systems and operating systems
Familiarity with general networking concepts such as IP addressing, network shares, and file systems.
Basic knowledge of backup and restore concepts is helpful but not mandatory.
Access to a lab environment for hands-on practice with ShadowProtect SPX and ImageManager. (recommended)
Willingness to learn and explore backup and disaster recovery procedures with real-world scenarios.
Description
Protecting critical data and ensuring business continuity are essential skills for every IT professional. Whether you’re just starting your IT career or looking to strengthen your backup and disaster recovery knowledge, this course provides a comprehensive introduction to Arcserve ShadowProtect SPX, a powerful and widely used backup solution.In this course, you will learn the fundamentals of backup and disaster recovery, starting with key concepts such as full, incremental, and differential backups. You’ll explore how ShadowProtect SPX efficiently protects data by creating reliable backup images and how to manage these backups using ImageManager for automated retention and offsite replication.Through hands-on exercises and real-world scenarios, you’ll gain practical experience setting up backup schedules, managing backup chains, and performing restores. You’ll also learn troubleshooting techniques to resolve common backup and recovery issues, ensuring your environment stays protected and operational.No prior experience with ShadowProtect or advanced backup knowledge is required—this course is designed for beginners and IT professionals who want to build confidence in managing data protection strategies. By the end, you will have the skills to plan, implement, and maintain a robust backup and disaster recovery solution using ShadowProtect SPX.Start your journey towards becoming a skilled IT professional equipped to safeguard your organization’s most valuable asset—its data.
Overview
Section 1: Introduction
Lecture 1 Introduction to Course
Lecture 2 Dan Mill Training
Lecture 3 Introduction to Arcserve and ShadowProtect SPX
Lecture 4 Use Cases: SMBs, Enterprises, and MSPs
Section 2: What is Backup and Disaster Recovery?
Lecture 5 What is a Backup and Why is it Important?
Lecture 6 The 3-2-1-1-0 Rule
Lecture 7 Recovery Point Object and Recovery Time Objective (RPO and RTO)
Lecture 8 Full Backups
Lecture 9 Incremental Backups
Lecture 10 Differential Backups
Lecture 11 Backups and Replication
Lecture 12 Backups and Disaster Recovery
Section 3: Installing and Licensing ShadowProtect SPX
Lecture 13 Shadowprotect Help
Lecture 14 System Requirements and Supported Platforms
Lecture 15 SPX Licensing
Lecture 16 Shadowprotect SPX Summary
Lecture 17 Downloading and Installing SPX (Windows)
Lecture 18 SPX Linux
Lecture 19 Activating and Licensing the Software
Lecture 20 SPX Console Tour
Section 4: Creating and Managing Backups
Lecture 21 Understanding Backup Types
Lecture 22 Creating a Backup Job
Lecture 23 Verify our First Backup
Section 5: Monitoring and Managing Backups
Lecture 24 Understanding Support, SPX Logs and Status Indicators
Lecture 25 ImageManager
Lecture 26 Imagemanager Verification, Consolidation and Replication Summary
Lecture 27 Incrementals: Consolidations and Retention
Lecture 28 Consolidated Files
Lecture 29 Understanding ImageManager HeadStart Restore (HSR)
Section 6: Recovery and Disaster Scenarios
Lecture 30 File and Folder Restore
Lecture 31 Example File and Folder Restore
Lecture 32 Volume Restore
Lecture 33 Bare Metal Recovery (BMR)
Lecture 34 VirtualBoot for Instant Recovery
Section 7: Troubleshooting and Maintenance
Lecture 35 Common Issues and Fixes
Lecture 36 Updating and Upgrading SPX
Section 8: Course Completion Certificate and Next Steps
Lecture 37 Course Completion Certificate and Next Steps
IT professionals and system administrators who want to deepen their knowledge of backup and disaster recovery using Arcserve ShadowProtect SPX.,Help desk and technical support staff tasked with managing data protection and recovery processes.,Network engineers and infrastructure specialists seeking to implement reliable backup strategies and minimize downtime.,Small to medium business IT teams looking for practical, vendor-agnostic skills in backup and restore operations.,Anyone new to backup and disaster recovery who wants a structured, hands-on introduction to ShadowProtect SPX.,IT consultants and managed service providers (MSPs) aiming to expand their service offerings with advanced backup and DR solutions.